The Right Honourable The Earl of Chesterfield Bt KG GCVO PC |
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Lord Steward of the Household | |
In office 22 June 1910 – 9 June 1915 |
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Monarch | George V |
Prime Minister | H. H. Asquith |
Preceded by | The Earl Beauchamp |
Succeeded by | The Marquess of Bath |
Master of the Horse | |
In office 9 June 1915 – 19 October 1922 |
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Monarch | George V |
Prime Minister |
H. H. Asquith David Lloyd George |
Preceded by | The Earl of Granard |
Personal details | |
Born | 15 March 1854 |
Died | 24 January 1933 | (aged 78)
Nationality | British |
Political party | Liberal |
Spouse(s) |
Enid Wilson (1878–1957) |
Alma mater | Brasenose College, Oxford |
Edwyn Francis Scudamore-Stanhope, 10th Earl of Chesterfield Bt KG GCVO PC (15 March 1854 – 24 January 1933), styled Lord Stanhope between 1883 and 1887, was a British peer and courtier.
Scudamore-Stanhope was the eldest child of Henry Scudamore-Stanhope, 9th Earl of Chesterfield, by Dorothea Hay, daughter of Sir Adam Hay, 7th Baronet. He was educated at Eton and Brasenose College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1877 with a BA. He was a practising Barrister in 1877.
Scudamore-Stanhope was Assistant Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1886. The following year he took his seat in the House of Lords on the death of his father. He served under William Ewart Gladstone as Treasurer of the Household between 1892 and 1894 and under Lord Rosebery as Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms between 1894 and 1895, and was sworn of the Privy Council on 30 April 1894. He was later Lord Steward of the Household under H. H. Asquith from 1910 to 1915 and Master of the Horse under Asquith and then David Lloyd George between 1915 and 1922. He was invested as a Knight of the Garter on 1 January 1915.